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Working with Reason 10
Setup
After opening Reason 10 and connecting your Launchkey Mini via USB find Reason’s
Preferences here:
Reason > Preferences
Once in Reason’s Preferences click Control Surfaces and choose ‘Auto-detect Surfaces’.
Reason should then find the Launchkey Mini [MK3]. Select it and make sure ‘Use with
Reason’ is checked.
Rotary Knobs
With a Reason instrument selected the Launchkey Mini’s 8 knobs automatically control useful
parameters. Of course, which parameters the knobs control varies by instrument. With the Kong
Drum Designer, for example, the Launchkey Mini’s knobs (from left to right) map to Pitch, Decay,
Bus FX, Aux 1, Aux 2, Tone, Pan and Level.
Navigation
Holding Shift and pressing Arp or Fixed Chord will select the track below or above the current
track, respectively. Doing so will also automatically arm the newly-selected Reason track.
Preset Browsing
Press the > and Stop, Solo, Mute buttons to scroll through presets on Reason instruments.
Shift and > moves to the next preset, while pressing Shift + Stop, Solo, Mute moves to the
previous one.
Stop
Solo
Mute
Arp
Fixed
Chord
Transpose
Shift
Pitch
Modulation
Arp
Tempo
Swing
Gate
Mutate
Channel
Octave
Program Change
Session
Drum
Custom
Device
Arp Mode
Up Down
Up/Down
Played
Random
Chord
Mutate
Rate
Octave
1/4
1/8
1/16 1/32
Triplet 1
2
3 4 o
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Rhythm
Latch
Deviate
Volume
Pan
Sends
Custom
Random Deviate On/Off
Track
Capture MIDI
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